Whats odd to me is this thing of, it works. When I was young, husbandry did not work, so having something work, was indeed wonderful. That was 45 to 50 years ago. I would hope our expectations have advanced since then.



The use of the term professionals, is the same as commercial. That is, commercial breeders. Please consider, I was part of that development of commercial breeding proceedures.



Where I am going is here, commercial breeders do the minimum to achieve results, they do so because of numbers. In order to stay in business, you must spend the least amount of time and energy with each animal to make sure you stay in business.



I had hoped that as time went on, we would advance from, it works, to what works better. Surely a tiny plastic box in a rack of thousands, WORKS, but never can be considered best, or better then what's now available. What concerns me is, why on earth would private keepers want to emulate commercial breeders. They are forced to do the least, we are not. ITs that simple.



About growth and reproduction as Bluerosy and I mention. People rationalize, think, whatever you want to call it that more is not better. Somehow they think less is better. This is a decent area of discussion.

I as a field herper and one who has kept animals in captivity, I understand that, snakes always attempt to reach their genetic limits. They consume as much as they can, grow as fast as they can and reproduce to the top level, IF THEY CAN. In nature, conditions out of their control hinder them. Their basic needs are always questionable, like food and water. Also nature taxes success. If an animal has excess energy, nature adds parasites. So that that animal can support itself and other lifeforms. In captivity, its us that hinders them. If your gave your animals normal for nature, temps and humidity, they would consume as much as they can, grow as fast as they can and reproduce as much as they can. end part 1

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